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General Software Discussion / Re: "Find and RunRobit" help file links

« Last post by rjbull on March 30, 2010, 04:30 PM »

RunIt! - http keleos DOT h11 DOT ru

-pmshah (March 29, 2010, 11:27 PM)

I used to have RunIt! on Win98SE.  Nice features, but my system never seemed stable with it, so I haven't tried it since.  My chief dislike about FARR is its sheer size, also complexity.  With a bigger HD I do have it installed, but rarely use it.  Mostly I use Horst Schaeffer's PopSel or Qsel.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinPatrol PLUS at 50% off until April 7

« Last post by rjbull on March 30, 2010, 04:12 PM »

When installing programs, I often tell WinPatrol Plus to disable them, only to have it constantly popping up to tell me the program is back again, and after a few times popping up the browser to go to WinPatrol Plus's Web site.  I suppose I either have to temporarily disable WinPatrol Plus during installations, or make a note of the offending program and disable it after a reboot.  Not WinPatrol Plus's fault, but very annoying.  "Offending" was a considered choice of word.  So many programs insist on running on Windows start-up when I really don't want them to.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Tool to easily disable/enable hardware device

« Last post by rjbull on March 23, 2010, 03:34 PM »

I know this isn't the answer you wanted, but, doesn't your laptop have a key for that already?  Mine has.  The (blue) Fn function overlay key (situated between left Ctrl and left Win keys) operates with keypad right and left arrows to increase and decrease volume, and as a shortcut to silence, Fn-F6 silences the speaker altogether.  The keys have the extra functions shown as blue icons.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by rjbull on March 21, 2010, 04:18 PM »

Three different videos of Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity playing Bob Dylan's song This Wheel's on Fire:

• http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=c7sQvBkcJdY
• http://www.youtube.c...&feature=related
• Live on Top of the Pops, in glorious black and white;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA0Z-5jXBL4

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ABBYY Screenshot Reader 4Free

« Last post by rjbull on March 21, 2010, 12:10 PM »

Is the WOT scorecard for JOCR or for the hosting service site, home.megapass.co.kr?

-PhilB66 (March 20, 2010, 09:14 PM)

I'm not very familiar with WOT - only recently installed it - but it looks like the rating is for the hosting service:

This site has a poor reputation.
home.megapass.co.kr

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ABBYY Screenshot Reader 4Free

« Last post by rjbull on March 20, 2010, 02:56 PM »

This makes it a no-no for me. I really don't like the idea of programs that disable themselves if they can't phone home.

-Dormouse (March 20, 2010, 06:39 AM)

I used to use JOCR when I was at work.  JOCR is freeware but depends on Microsoft Office components.  I don't have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office at home, so bought a license for ABBYY because it's free-standing.  I'd have hesitated if I'd known about this bad behaviour

Warning: Web of Trust (WOT) gives the JOCR site a poor reputation.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot tool with built-in OCR?

« Last post by rjbull on March 20, 2010, 07:08 AM »

Why is the service disabled by something .. dunno yet.  (Zemana and WinPatrol are two possibles).

-Steven Avery (March 19, 2010, 07:31 PM)

I run WinPatrolPlus, and it hasn't stopped ABBYY Screenshot Reader.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Save Window's cmd.exe line events to a text file- recorder

« Last post by rjbull on March 20, 2010, 07:00 AM »

working in a command prompt window and you would like to save all of its input/output (everything you see) to a text file

-KiTTy (March 20, 2010, 03:26 AM)

I haven't tried it, but TCC/LE has a "Tee" command:

TEE
         
Purpose: Copy standard input to both standard output and a file.
Format: TEE [/A /D /T] file...

file        One or more files that will receive the "tee-d" output.

Usage:
TEE is normally used to "split" the output of a program so that you can see it on the display and also save it in a file. It can also be used to capture intermediate output before the data is altered by another program or command.

mouser has a point about simpler utilities.  There are several, none of which I've tried.  They include PromptPal, PowerCMD, ColorConsole and Console, see e.g. these DC threads:

• Bits Du Jour and GAOTD one-day deals
• console: a great CMD.exe replacement application     
• PowerCmd on Bits du Jour

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Save Window's cmd.exe line events to a text file- recorder

« Last post by rjbull on March 19, 2010, 06:11 PM »

I think I'm not understanding you, but FWIW, there were old, as in back in the days of DOS, utilities like PC Magazine's Peruse, a TSR scrollback buffer.  I think JP Software's TCC/LE has a screen scrollback buffer too, and is compatible with recent versions of Windows (I haven't tried Peruse on Vista Home Premium, but it worked reasonably well on XP).

Otherwise, can you just redirect the output to a file, and read the file later, or with a Tail-type utility?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ABBYY Screenshot Reader 4Free

« Last post by rjbull on March 19, 2010, 06:03 PM »

Is there any adware-toolbarware-bloatware embeded in the installer at all?,

-kartal (March 19, 2010, 04:22 PM)

I don't think so.  It wants to call home occasionally.  I wondered why it kept starting with Windows, until I realised I hadn't unchecked "Start with Windows" during installation, see my embarassment in the thread Screenshot tool with built-in OCR?

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General Software Discussion / Re: save ebay auctions webpages

« Last post by rjbull on March 18, 2010, 03:58 PM »

For what it's worth, Firefox has an extension that allows on to save web pages as PDFs.

-Innuendo (March 17, 2010, 07:48 PM)

Presumably you could print the page to a PDF with one of the many PDF virtual printers,  e.g.  PDF995?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Portability of Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by rjbull on March 17, 2010, 11:59 AM »

Actually I think you should be able to put the line
PORTABLE=TRUE

-mouser (March 17, 2010, 02:51 AM)

mouser, do you mean that one should be able to, but currently can't because you haven't coded it yet?

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General Software Discussion / Re: anyone using PowerPro? what for? Share use ideas?

« Last post by rjbull on March 17, 2010, 11:48 AM »

I forgot to add, dialog box extender, like FileBox Extender etc.  Gives you a menu of folders you've visited, plus favourites folders, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder: How did you find it + What has your experience been like so far.

« Last post by rjbull on March 16, 2010, 04:13 PM »

Hmmm... I am really not sure. I suspect that I was flailing around on Google trying to find the answer to a question that I had about software [...]

-Darwin (March 15, 2010, 11:30 PM)

same here,

-tomos (March 16, 2010, 04:03 AM)

+1

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Post New Requests Here / Re: App to batch rename to specific name?

« Last post by rjbull on March 16, 2010, 04:09 PM »

A vast array of batch file enhancers exists, including small programs that check the time/date so you could make the batch file run when you wanted.  You'd have to check to make sure they ran on recent versions of Windows.  Take a look at these two pages from the Free Software for DOS Web site:

• http://reimagery.com/fsfd/batch1.htm
• http://reimagery.com...fd/z_more1.htm#batch

And on no account overlook Horst Schaeffer's Batch tools page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: anyone using PowerPro? what for? Share use ideas?

« Last post by rjbull on March 16, 2010, 03:57 PM »

I used to run it constantly on XP at work, for all sorts of things.  I'm not using it at present because I'm now on Vista Home Premium at home, and PowerPro has to be run as admin (I think), which is a constant pain with UAC.

The sort of things I used it for, as far as I can remember:

• Macro scripts, for doing things like pressing buttons, sending text and arrows to controls, etc.  This was a great convenience and timesaver.  PowerPro allowed you to make these window-specific, i.e., the buttons for launching the scripts only appeared on certain windows and not others.
• Text snippets, e.g. for pasting titles of things into Outlook e-mails.  Similarly, one of them would put a button onto TED Notepad's title bar but only when it was editing a particular file.  When pressed, it would give a menu of standard texts to paste.
• The scheduler; I never bothered with the Windows Scheduler when I had this.  Easy to set up and use, much easier than 'cron' syntax.  Can be used to pop up alarms and messages as well as to run programs.  I used it to run various cleanup routines, for example.
• Window-specific sticky notes, i.e., notes that would pop up, stuck to the right-hand side of the window, when I was editing a particular file.
  

I didn't use all PowerPro's features, by any means.  Some, like the sticky notes (normal uses), were just too clumsy.  Other features, like the timers and multiple desktops, I never had a use for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rjbull on March 13, 2010, 03:23 PM »

Bits du Jour have an offer on CaptureSaver, scheduled for Saturday 20th March 2010.  I haven't tried it, but here's the blurb from their Web site, which makes it sound a bit like Surfulater or UltraRecall:

CaptureSaver® - Professional Internet Research Tool
CaptureSaver lets you gather and permanently save information into an off-line research and reference library while you are surfing the Internet. It ensures you stop losing valuable information and always have what's important at your fingertips.
Save, organize and search anything with this internet research tool:
Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, RSS News, Email, Images, Newsgroup Threads,  and Other Internet Content

Text from Window, Screen Shots, Rich format text from Application such as Microsoft Word, Notepad, Adobe Acrobat Reader or others

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: MultiFind Pro 1.7 - file search utility

« Last post by rjbull on March 12, 2010, 04:31 PM »

Cashper, maybe I'm missing something again, please can the currently-focussed tab be closed with Control-F4 or Control-W?

The filtering that allows you to search-within-a-search is nice, but please can there be a hotkey to put the cursor in the filter box?  Maybe one that sort of "tabs" between the different filter options, File, Folder, etc.?

Thanks...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Undelete utilities?

« Last post by rjbull on March 12, 2010, 04:10 PM »

@Darwin:  it's strange that some apps can recover files that others can't, but if it meant serious data loss, I see why you'd keep several.  Pity that some of them are so expensive, as is GetDataBack.

@sajman99:  I didn't realise that Piriform offered a portable version of Recuva.  Thanks!  I found mention of DiskDigger in a couple of other places, Best Free Data Recovery / File Un-delete Utility (that one's Gizmo) and File Recovery - 17 Free File Recovery Programs - Undelete Files (can't remember if those were in the original thread, and too lazy to check)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Boxer editor 14 released - paid upgrade, $29.00 - text wrap at last

« Last post by rjbull on March 12, 2010, 03:56 PM »

As far as I can see, Boxer and UE are both good editors, and both way more than I need.  I'm just sorry that Boxer's lack ot text wrap made me abandon it.  If that feature had been present I might not have looked elsewhere at all, unless or until the limitation on bookmarks became too important.

I'd have to add, though, that for typing personal letters, essays or the like, I still much prefer my WordStar-style DOS text editor, VDE.  WordStar-style operation is still the best way to move chunks of text around, when your text is writing rather than computer-related.

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General Software Discussion / Undelete utilities?

« Last post by rjbull on March 11, 2010, 04:36 PM »

Has anyone any further thoughts on undelete utilities since this 2007 thread, File-Saver (file undeletion utility) $40 off TODAY ?  Specifically, is it really worth paying for undelete utilities, or are the free ones good enough now?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Boxer editor 14 released - paid upgrade, $29.00 - text wrap at last

« Last post by rjbull on March 11, 2010, 04:32 PM »

I actually asked for text wrap in the Boxer Yahoo! Group.  It looks like I didn't ask about bookmarks.  I feel slightly "guilty" at not upgrading when the author has added a feature I wanted, but time has moved on, my requirements have changed, I have other editors now, and my income has disappeared.  If he had added more bookmarks, I'd have been more tempted, perhaps.  But as things are, I'm in a save money mode.  Well... more accurately, I've already spent enough on software this week... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: simple software to facilitate reading screen full of text ...

« Last post by rjbull on March 09, 2010, 03:37 PM »

I think V - The File Viewer can do this, to a point, but think it could be improved.  I just e-mailed the author to ask.

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Living Room / Re: In rememberance of....The antiquated hardware/software reminiscence thread

« Last post by rjbull on March 09, 2010, 02:42 PM »

Fidonet

Those of us who were lucky enough to be "node" member sysops still look back with fondness

-40hz (March 09, 2010, 12:14 PM)

I was a "point" for years, and had to drag myself reluctantly into the Internet age when my last boss disappeared   

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Living Room / Re: In rememberance of....The antiquated hardware/software reminiscence thread

« Last post by rjbull on March 07, 2010, 03:29 PM »

Software: QEMM386 & DesqView! QEMM provided the memory management for my DOS games & DesqView provided the multi-tasking for my DOS apps.

-Innuendo (March 07, 2010, 02:52 PM)

+1

Patiently watching eBay like a hawk netted me the RAM to max out the printer

Didn't you set up some saved searches?